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18:17 Nov 25, 2009
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: punch line
During the phone conversation, her attention was distracted from the computer, because her punch line was - if its work, the importance goes to work first, and rest of the things latter.
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Summary of answers provided
5تأثيرها وفاعليتها وقدرتهاnevine ibrahim
4مبدأها
Nadia Ayoub
4محرضها، غايتها، هدفها
siba chehab
4نهاية الدعابة/النكتة
Ziad Alghamdi


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نهاية الدعابة/النكتة


Explanation:
نهاية الدعابة/النكتة التي من المفترض أن تكون مضحكة

Ziad Alghamdi
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محرضها، غايتها، هدفها


Explanation:
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siba chehab
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مبدأها


Explanation:
What is meant in this context is "the most important thing". There are many google examples that show this use of the expression. I think it would better be translated as مبدأها.

http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/punch line
Hence: The final sentence, phrase, or word in any
narration, speech, or advertisement that produces the
speaker's intended effect.

...His "punch line" was that we need a cultural change in our country so that preparedness becomes a part of our value system and how we think. ...
www.britannica.com/.../Notes-on-Online-Learning-and-Pandemi...

A ...I once read a reviewer talking about a movie, and his punch line was that to watch the movie you needed to suspend reality until it was "dead, dead, dead. ...
www.amazon.com/review/R3TNETV7HBM225


Nadia Ayoub
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تأثيرها وفاعليتها وقدرتها


Explanation:
An informal expression means effectiveness and impact

Example sentence(s):
  • The punch line of the story was the sunliminal message to the young readers

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nevine ibrahim
United States
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